Yes, most of us think that SCEE London's Beats is awesome, and it's about time that someone from the homebrew community thought up of letting PSP owners play the game with their own customized "beats." Yes, here's Beats Off, where you can load and play custom compiled BJS files. Important details in the full article!

Download: Beats Off v0.1

We just got informed that coder nickdagamer from QJ.NET PSP Development Forum is working on a new shell for the Sony PlayStation Portable. The program is to resemble Mac OS X and is in need of beta testers. To know more and watch a video clip of it, just click the read more link below.


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Developer charnold visited the QJ.NET Forums earlier to announce the release of version 1.0.1 for both the PSP Dungeons: Assault Run and 3D Editor. This new build will carry several new changes and bug fixes, all viewable over at the full article.


Download: PSP Dungeons: Assault Run w/ 3D Editor 1.0.1 (Windows)
Download: PSP Dungeons: Assault Run w/ 3D Editor 1.0.1 (MAC OS X)
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Apple interface fans, here's a quick update for you. PlayStation Portable homebrew developer dangee has released a new beta version of the portal Mac OS X Leopard. Click the full article link below for more information.

Download: Mac OS X Leopard v0.3 BETA - portal
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We've seen PSP portals that mimic Vista and Windows XP, and we're sure some of you want to see a Mac OS X version. Well, homebrew developer bladefinor (Dolphin Projects) has released Mac OS X Leopard version 0.2 beta and it's got the look you've been looking for. Check out the full article for more info.


Download: Mac OS X Leopard v0.2 BETA - portal
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FIFA 08 had remained on the top spot of the Chart Track UK ladder ever since it dethroned Halo 3 (for the week ending October 6). Now, the football mogul is finally kicked right out of the top spot by... drumroll, please... another football game. Sega's Football Manager 2008 for the PC and Mac OS X platforms has debuted at #1 for the week ending October 20.

Former king FIFA 08 (PS3, PS2, PSP, Xbox 360, PC, Wii, and DS) landed not so far away at the second spot, which is followed by two new entrants in the UK charts. The Orange Box (Half-Life 2, HL2: Episode 1 and 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal) from Valve and Electronic Arts takes the third spot, while the Nintendo DS' The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass clocks in at fourth place. Halo 3 caps the top five spots.

1. Football Manager 2008
2. FIFA 08
3. The Orange Box
4. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
5. Halo 3
6. Project Gotham Racing 4
7. Ratatouille
8. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
9. Resistance: Fall of Man
10. Crash of the Titans

Yes, it seems that Europeans do love their football. Heck, the sports simulation title is even scheduled to hit the PSP sometime this Christmas in the form of Football Manager Handheld 2008. Anyone wanna place their bets as early as now that the PSP version will eventually claim the top spot once it gets released?

Headplay is probably every couch potato's dream. Imagine a TV. Now imagine being able to take it anywhere and everywhere you go (except perhaps in the shower), and being able to watch movies or play games on it anytime you want. That's the concept for the new "Personal Cinema System" device, Headplay.

Headplay is a head-mounted device; basically, a TV you wear on your head. You can connect it to your gaming consoles, your DVD Player, your iPod, your PC, and maybe your Betamax player if it hasn't choked on dust yet. If it has a video out function, Headplay can most probably display it. You can also plug in a memory stick and Headplay can run the media files - movies, videos, and images - with its own built-in player.

Once you're behind the lenses of Headplay it's pretty easy to just relax and go dead to the world around you. It's nothing but you and the screen, with the stereo sounds blocking off everything else. It's like your own movie screen inside your living room.

To read the complete review of Headplay - what it is, what it does, how it plays on Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, and Nintendo' Wii on it - click on the link for the full article.

 

Since when did StrmnNrmn do Get a Mac ads? Well, his latest blog update is all about compiling Daedalus PSP on Mac OS X, and if there's one thing that you should know, it's that he's been able to speed up his process in coding everyone's favorite Nintendo 64 emulator. With a quick conclusion, StrmnNrmn has what it takes to boot out Justin Long from his role as the Mac guy:

Daedalus PSP compiles perfectly under OSX. On my 2.4 GHz Macbook Pro it takes just under 50 seconds. On my 2.4GHz Windows machine it takes over 2 minutes to compile, so I'm very impressed with the results.

Talk about free promotion for Mac. But moving on, StrmnNrmn's kept true to his word the other day about posting a very detailed - a very, very, very detailed - tutorial on how to compile Daedalus on Mac OS X. This will also help other homebrew developers in general since a large portion of the how-to revolves around setting up the PSPSDK on a Mac.

As we've stressed, the post is highly detailed since it tackles the many nuances and obstacles that you might/will encounter while trying to set up your homebrewing space on the Mac system. So, for those who are interested, the Read link is attached below. StrmnNrmn's also welcome to constructive discussions in the comments section on his blog, so drop a line, why don't you?

For StrmnNrmn's tutorial, dock into the Read link below!

With StrmnNrmn's most recent Nintendo 64 Daedalus R12 emulator released just a little over a month ago, everything's been pretty quite lately - well, excluding the whole misinformation and identity theft issue, at least. Wondering what's been up with the homebrew developer? QJ readers Tyler Dickinson and blackrave tipped us off (a million thanks, guys!), saying that StrmnNrmn's updated his blog.

Seems like StrmnNrmn's had a break since the release of R12, wanting to sit back a while and recharge his batteries. You can't blame him; R12 was quite a burden with all the dynarec bugs and fragment simulation going on. So, to summarize the things StrmnNrmn's been up to for the previous few weeks:

• a trip to Spain
• his Xbox 360 getting hit by the Red Ring of Death
• moving into a new flat in Guilford
• getting a 17" MacBook Pro

Interesting. For one, I wonder what he's been playing on his 360 for it to have gotten RROD'ed. But on a more Daedalus-related note, that MacBook Pro of his just might save everyone's lives. StrmnNrmn said that he's now compiling Daedalus with it, instead of his year old desktop PC. The switch to Mac OS X, he says, allows him to compile Daedalus much faster. Not a big surprise - that MacBook Pro's quite a beast with its tech specs.

This imposes a couple of good things for all parties concerned:

1. StrmnNrmn has an easier and faster time working on Daedalus,
2. We can hear more about his Daedalus progress via his blog, and
   
3. You could find Daedalus R13 on your lap as soon as tomorrow (a bit of a stretch, but hey!, we can dream too)

Well, StrmnNrmn did mention that he can now start working on Daedalus R13 - what with being able to recharge and level up to MacBook Pro status (for the Mac Junkies, StrmnNrmn will "have some details and tutorials about compiling Daedalus PSP under OS X in the near future"). He leaves us with what we can expect on R13 though. Here's what' he's looking at for the next couple of weeks:

I'd like to continue working on speeding up the emulator to try and improve the framerate for titles that are already working. [...] There are a number of different areas I can investigate to help improve performance. The two main possibilities I want to investigate are working on further dynarec improvements, and looking at making use the Media Engine.

He says that, based on your comments, these are what you guys are most interested in seeing for R13. So, to get the ball rolling, StrmnNrmn's going to investigate these areas to tweak and will soon have details to update us with soon enough.

  

We don't know if you still remember the homebrew application Choice from last year. It was created by Xart and is a graphical user interface (GUI) for Fanjita's and Ditlew's groundbreaking eLoader at that time. Well, Xart is back and so is his pet project that has been made compatible with the custom OE firmware.

If you're not well familiar with this kind of stuff, take note that Choice has the following features: launch homebrew, organize homebrew, calculator, USB Connection, Duo Manager, and Lua launch. The program was developed in Xcode and was originally tested on Mac OS X.

Anyway, Xart mentioned that this is not yet the full release as he plans to add more features in the coming days. Despite that, we have to say that Choice is already looking good. Just take a look at its development history:

• Choice Preview 3 for PSP OE "homebrew, and usb"
• Pre-Alpha
• 1A008 BUILD
• PSP Alpha "only homebrew, usb, photo, and other enabled"
• 1A009 BUILD
• 1A010 BUILD Updated EBOOT.PBP file for 1A009
• 1A014 BUILD
• 1A020 BUILD
• 1A021 BUILD Support for HOMEBREW Folder, ms0:/PSP/HOMEBREW

Of course, what we provided in the download below is the latest version which is Choice 1A021 BUILD. To help you get started, Xart also provided a few backgrounds to be used with the application.

Download: Choice 1A021 BUILD
Download: Choice 1A021 BUILD backgrounds
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